Note 403 — ABU AL-HUSN AND HIS SLAVE-GIRL TAWADDUD.[281]

Educated Arabs can quote many a verse bearing upon domestic medicine and reminding us of the lines bequeathed to Europe by the School of Salerno. Such e.g. are:—

After the noon-meal, sleep, although for moments twain;

After the night-meal, walk, though but two steps be ta’en;

And after swiving stale, though but two drops thou drain.